Judgments on Judah’s Enemies
Gather yourselves together in repentance, yes, agather in submission,O bnation without shame,2 Chr 20:4; Joel 1:14Jer 3:3; 6:152 Before the decree takes effect and the time for repentance is lost—The day passes alike the chaff whirled by the wind—Before the bburning and fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you,Before the cday of the wrath of the LORD comes upon you.Is 17:13; Hos 13:3Lam 4:11; Nah 1:6Zeph 1:183 aSeek the LORD search diligently for Him and regard Him as the foremost necessity of your life,All you bhumble of the landWho have practiced His ordinances and have kept His commandments;cSeek righteousness, seek humility regard them as vital.Perhaps you will be dhidden and pardoned and rescuedIn the day of the LORD’S anger.Ps 105:4; Amos 5:6Ps 22:26; Is 11:4Amos 5:14, 15Ps 57:1; Is 26:20
4 For this is the fate of the Philistines: aGaza will be abandonedAnd Ashkelon a desolation;The people of bAshdod will be driven out at noon in broad daylightAnd cEkron will be uprooted and destroyed.Amos 1:7, 8; Zech 9:5-75 Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast,The nation of the aCherethites in Philistia!The word of the LORD is bagainst you,O cCanaan, land of the Philistines;I will ddestroy youSo that eno inhabitant will be left.Ezek 25:16Amos 3:1Zeph 1:11Is 14:29, 30Zeph 3:66 So the depopulated seacoast shall be apastures,With deserted meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.Is 5:17; 7:257 The 1seacoast will belongTo the aremnant of the house of Judah;They will bpasture their flocks on it.In the deserted houses of Ashkelon in Philistia they of Judah will lie down and rest in the evening,For the LORD their God will ccare for them;And drestore their fortune permitting them to occupy the land. Is 14:29-31; Amos 1:6-8This is one of the more than twenty-five details of Bible prophecy about the promised land that has been literally fulfilled. See note Ezek 26:14 for information about a similar fulfillment of Bible prophecy with regard to Tyre.Is 11:16Is 32:14Ex 4:31; Ps 80:14Jer 32:44; Zeph 3:20
8 “I have heard the ataunting of MoabAnd the brevilings of the sons of Ammon,With which they have taunted My peopleAnd cbecome arrogant against their territory by violating Israel’s boundary and trying to seize its land.Ezek 25:8Ezek 25:3Amos 1:139 “Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of hosts,The God of Israel,“1aMoab will in fact become like bSodomAnd the 2sons of cAmmon like dGomorrah,A land possessed by nettles and salt pits,And a perpetual desolation.The remnant of My people will eplunder themAnd what is left of My nation will inherit them as their own.”The descendants of Lot and his elder daughter (Gen 19:37).Descendants of Lot and his younger daughter (Gen 19:38).Is 15:1-9; Jer 48:1-47; Amos 2:1-3Gen 19:24Jer 49:1-6; Ezek 25:1-10Deut 29:23Is 11:14
10 This they shall have in return for their apride, because they have btaunted and become arrogant against the people of the LORD of hosts.Is 16:6Zeph 2:8 11 The LORD will be aterrifying and awesome to them, for He will starve ball the gods of the earth; and all the ccoastlands of the nations will dbow down and worship Him, everyone from his own place. Joel 2:11; Zeph 1:4; 3:9Joel 2:11Zeph 1:4Is 24:15Ps 72:8-11; Zeph 3:9
12 “You also, O aEthiopians, will be slain by My sword.” Is 18Is 18:1-7; 20:4, 5; Ezek 30:4-913 And the LORD will astretch out His hand against the northAnd destroy bAssyria,And He will make cNineveh a desolation a wasteland,Parched as the desert. Is 10:12; Nah 1:1Is 14:26; Zeph 1:4Is 10:16; Mic 5:6Nah 3:714 Flocks will lie down in her midst,All the animals which range in herds;Both the apelican and the short-eared owlWill roost on the top of Nineveh’s pillars.Birds will sing in the window,Desolation will be on the threshold;For He has uncovered the cedar paneling.Is 14:23; 34:1115 This is the ajoyous cityWhich bdwells carelessly feeling so secure,Who says in her heart,“cI am, and there is no one besides me.”What a ddesolation she has become,A lair for wild animals!eEveryone who passes by her will hiss in scornAnd wave his hand in contempt. Is 10:5-34; 47:8, 10Is 22:2Is 32:9, 11; 47:8Is 47:8; Ezek 28:2, 9Is 32:14Jer 18:16; 19:8